U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson ordered the Oct. 23 hearing to determine whether Osbon’s release “would not create a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage of property of another due to a present mental disease or defect.”

In July, Robinson found Osbon, 49, not guilty by reason of insanity in the midair meltdown that forced a co-pilot to make an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport this year.

According to the judge’s order, Osbon suffered from a “severe mental disease or defect that impaired his ability” to understand his actions when he raced inside a JetBlue cabin screaming about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and pounded on the cockpit door, prompting the diversion of a March 27 flight bound from New York to Las Vegas.

Co-pilot Jason Dowd locked Osbon out of the cockpit and landed the plane at Husband.

None of the 131 passengers and six crew members was hurt.

Authorities charged Osbon with interfering with a flight crew, and the airline suspended him the following day.

The indictment alleged Osbon “moved through the aircraft and was disruptive and had to be subdued and forcibly restrained from re-entering the cockpit.”